"When you are born you cry and the world is happy, when you die the world cries and you are happy."

from the movie: One Last Thing

“After the game the king and the Pawn go into the same box.”

Italian saying

“It was not frightening to die sometime, it was frightening to die right now.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (cancer ward)

“The idea is to die young as late as possible.”

Ashley Montagu, (1905 –1999)

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love."

Washington Irving

"Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality."

Jean Paul Richter

Strive not, my soul, for an immortal life, but make the most of what is possible.”

Pythian Odes, 518 – 438BC

"Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light."